![]() ![]() ![]() Since Korede does not have friends, she confides her troubles in Muhtar Yautai, a patient in a coma, the victim of a traffic accident. Tade Otumu, but a chance meeting between Ayoola and Tade leads to his infatuation with Ayoola. Korede is obsessed with cleaning the traces, and this obsession slowly seeps into the rest of her life. Ayoola carries a knife that she took from their dead, abusive criminal of a father, and her kills tend to be bloody and messy. The novel begins with Ayoola’s third victim, the perceptive and poetic Femi, whose body the sisters dispose of in one of Lagos’s many lagoons. Ayoola serially kills men who worship her, and Korede feels compelled to cover her sister’s tracks and find ways to stop her from killing again. She leads a highly organized and sterile existence, dedicated to the protection of her younger, arrestingly beautiful sister, Ayoola. Korede, a young nurse of average, typically Nigerian looks, works in a hospital in Lagos. ![]() The edition of the novel used for this study guide is by Doubleday, published in New York in 2018, in e-book format. The novel has been translated into several languages and the film adaptation is in preparation. ![]() Oyinkan Braithwaite graduated from Kingston University, London, with degrees in creative writing and law and has won prizes for her spoken word slam poetry. ![]()
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